This 175-page study is based on detailed data from more than 50 American colleges, 35 of which participate in Division 1 sports. Some of the participants include William & Mary, Georgetown, the University of Nevada, the University of Michigan, the University of Mississippi and many others. The report gives highly detailed data about how colleges have renovated their stadiums and what their renovation plans are for the future. The highly specific data in the report covers recent spending on video screens, scoreboards, playing turf, locker rooms, weight rooms, luxury boxes and other VIP seating, energy saving technology, field lighting, heating and air conditioning, parking, stadium ramps, insulation, roofing and flooring, artwork and statues, "halls of fame," restrooms, concessions, press boxes, office and classroom space and many other facets of college sports stadiums. The study also gives detailed spending data on overall capital spending related to stadiums and plans for the future.

The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more. In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as activists increasingly occupied the stadium floor to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and more. Following the rise of the corporatized stadium in the 1990s, this complex history was largely forgotten. But today’s athlete-activists, like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, belong to a powerful tradition in which the stadium is as much an arena of protest as a palace of pleasure. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, this book recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America.